"Cheongdam-dong Stock Rich" Lee Hee-jin's Parents Murder. The Victim Who Wanted It Turns out

■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (06:40~06:55, 12:40~12:55, 19:40~19:55)
■ Broadcast Date: November 6, 2024 (Wednesday)
■ Host: Attorney Lee Won-hwa
■ Dialogue: Attorney Kim Deok-jin

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◆ Lawyer Lee Won-hwa (hereinafter referred to as Lee Won-hwa): Police who suddenly come in and issue a search warrant. The couple, who were at home without incident, were embarrassed. But the police said it was because of my son, so I had to be a little daunted. Who on earth was this couple's son? The house where the police came with a search warrant was the home of Lee Hee-jin's parents, who deceived numerous ant investors to steal large amounts of money. At that time, Lee Hee-jin was arrested on charges of fraud and was undergoing a second trial. But why on earth was a search warrant issued during the second trial? The police also visited Lee Hee-jin's parents' house, not his house. I saw a lot of things that I didn't know. Were they really police? And if they weren't police, who were they and why did they come to this couple's house? Let's take a closer look at this case in today's case X file. Hello, I'm Lee Won-hwa, the case X file of lawyer Lee Won-hwa. Today, we are also with lawyer Kim Deok-jin of Law Firm Roel. Welcome, lawyer.

◇ Lawyer Kim Deok-jin (hereinafter referred to as Kim Deok-jin): Yes, hello. I'm lawyer Kim Deok-jin of Loel Law Firm.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: Lee Hee-jin, who was called the stock rich in Cheongdam-dong. I'm sure many people will remember. The amount of damage to victims who were deceived by Lee Hee-jin's words was enormous. Right?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: That's right. Lee Hee-jin introduced himself as a self-made stock rich man with hundreds of billions of won in assets. Lee Hee-jin gained fame by showing off her financial talent on blogs and social networks and appeared on TV programs on the Internet to make her face known. Using this fame, Lee Hee-jin made unfair profits by spreading false stock information and selling low-value over-the-counter stocks at high prices in the name of sharing stock investment know-how. It was revealed that 232 victims were deceived by Lee Hee-jin's words, and the amount of damage alone amounted to 29.2 billion won.

◆ Binaryization: It's almost 30 billion.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: The case we're going to talk about today is not Lee Hee-jin himself. It was a crime aimed at Lee Hee-jin's parents.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: It was a 34-year-old man named Kim Da-woon who targeted Lee Hee-jin's parents at the time. Kim Down visited the house where Lee Hee-jin's parents lived with three accomplices at around 4 p.m. on February 25, 2019, and posed as a police officer by showing a search warrant.

◆ [Dualization] I think it was fake, of course.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right. Kim Daun forged a warrant in advance. They entered the house, dragged Lee Hee-jin's father and mother to the study and clothing room, respectively, tied them up, and killed them. The accomplices went straight to Incheon International Airport after receiving the reward from Kim Da-woon, and fled on a flight to Qingdao, China at 11:51 p.m. on the day of the incident.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: It's a cautious story, but was there a situation like that if the criminal was an ant investor who was cheated by Lee Hee-jin? It's because I wonder if there was a grudge relationship between Lee Hee-jin's parents and whether it was a revenge drama.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Yes, I'm not so suspicious, but it wasn't. After studying in the United States, Kim Da-woon suffered financial difficulties due to his failure in business, and after returning home, he decided to commit the crime and decided to commit the crime because he thought Lee Hee-jin's parents would have a lot of money.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: You just found it because Lee Hee-jin cheated a lot, the amount of damage was large, and it was not recovered yet, so you thought your parents would have money, and you looked for someone with a lot of money, right?

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right. Kim Da-woon made a thorough plan for about a year in advance, and in March 2018, he visited an apartment in Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, where Lee Hee-jin's parents lived, and filmed his return home, and later even put a location tracker on his parents' vehicle to check the movement. In addition, Kim Da-woon found out Lee Hee-jin's family relationship through officials from a group of victims related to Lee Hee-jin, and purchased tools to use for the crime, such as bleach and blue tape, in advance and prepared to execute the crime.

◆ I think it was a crime that I prepared very carefully for a long time. Then there were three accomplices who committed the crime together that they fled on the plane to Qingdao. Who are these people?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Yes, they were Chinese compatriots hired by Kim Da-woon. It's called the so-called Korean-Chinese.

◆ So these people aren't just acquaintances with Kim Da-woon or some kind of organization, they're like murder contractors.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] That's what it looks like. The accomplices hired by Kim Da-woon immediately fled, and Kim Da-woon disposed of the body. Kim Daun-woo placed Lee Hee-jin's father in a refrigerator in the house, sealed it with tape, called a moving center vehicle and moved it to a warehouse in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, where he rented it. And Lee Hee-jin's mother abandoned it in the closet. Surprisingly, it seems that this was not the end of Kim Daun's murder plan.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: You must have killed all your parents and targeted someone else?

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] That's right. It was Lee Hee-moon, the younger brother of Lee Hee-jin, the second son.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: My parents didn't get as much money as I thought, so I think my younger brother had money. But wasn't Lee Hee-moon also arrested at the time for stock fraud?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Yes, Lee Hee-moon was arrested for violating the Capital Markets Act and sentenced to two and a half years in prison and a fine of 1 million won, and was later released from prison due to maturity.

◆ [Voiceover] So it was in the state of being released.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Kim Da-woon seems to have targeted Lee Hee-moon for an additional crime for economic purposes, but it does not appear to have been planned in advance as in the case of killing his parents. Kim Down found a bag containing 500 million won at home while cleaning up the scene of the murder of Lee's brother's parents

◆ [Dualization] We've got money.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] That's right. The 500 million won was the money Lee Hee-moon received on the day of the incident and entrusted some of the 1.5 billion won he received from selling a supercar to his parents.

◆ [Dualization] The car is very expensive.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: That's right. As far as I know, it was a very high-end supercar.

◆ [Dualization] I was surprised. What do you mean 1.5 billion won?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Kim Da-woon was unaware of this situation and happened to find his money bag. Since the money bag contained documents related to the sale of the vehicle, Kim Down apparently thought Lee Hee-moon would hold the rest of the payment.

◆ [Dualization] I guess so. Yes, yes.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Even after killing Lee Hee-jin Lee Hee-moon's mother, Kim Da-woon pretended to be her mother and left a message to Lee Hee-moon on KakaoTalk saying that his Japanese father's friend passed away and that he was leaving the country urgently, and later sent a message delaying his return. I think I was trying to take some time so that the crime wouldn't be a problem.

◆ [Voiceover] That's right.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: I even made an appointment to meet with Lee Hee-moon.

◆ [Voiceover] That's very bold. Did you meet him in person?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: They actually met. Kim Down called Lee Hee-moon to Suwon and met him, but Lee Hee-moon brought an acquaintance and seems to have failed to commit additional crimes. Lee Hee-moon thought something was suspicious, and after meeting Kim Da-woon, he went straight to his parents' house, and the house password was changed and no one was in the house. Lee Hee-moon decided that his parents had a problem and reported him missing to the police, and the police forcibly opened the door of the house and found his mother's body that he had abandoned it in the closet, and later identified the suspect as Kim Da-woon through CCTV installed in the apartment and immediately arrested him.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: Kim Da-woon himself also tried to run away to a foreign country, but there was a rumor that this didn't work out, so what happened?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: After Kim Da-woon failed to plan to kidnap Lee Hee-moon, the police paid 50 million won to the errand center and tried to go to Miryang twice, but both failed. Meanwhile, when the police asked about the motive of the crime, Kim Da-woon said he committed the crime because he did not pay back the 20 million won borrowed from Lee Hee-jin's father for investment purposes.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: In the meantime, I think you talked about taking care of the cause, but you said earlier that it was a crime purely for money because you thought you would have a lot of money to tell me. Did you have a debt relationship?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: No, it's not. No contact details or financial transaction records were found between Kim Da-woon and Lee's siblings' parents. Meanwhile, Kim Da-woon was put on trial on charges of robbery and murder and abandonment of the body and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial.

◆ [Dualization] Some of you may remember that time, but there was a lot of criticism. The lawyer in charge of this case also submitted his resignation. There was a lot of talk about this and that.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right. Kim Da-woon's lawyer seems to have been concerned that most of the fees are criminal proceeds.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: By the way, you know the 500 million won in cash that the criminal carried from the victim's house. What happened to this money?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Kim Da-woon spent KRW 243 million on various expenses related to the crime in this case and the cost of appointing a lawyer, of which KRW 70 million was spent by Kim Da-woon's mother on stock investment.

◆ I made another investment. Can the money spent by the killer's mother or something like this be recovered?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Yes, it may be collected or confiscated in accordance with relevant laws such as the Act on the Regulation and Punishment of Concealment of Criminal Proceeds.

◆ Dualization: This incident happened in 2019. It's already been five years since you told me. Lee Hee-jin and Lee Hee-moon, I think it's time for these brothers to return to society after serving their sentences. Have you heard anything since then?

◇ Kim Deok-jin: Your news has been delivered. After being released from prison, the Lee brothers were arrested and charged in October 2023 with defrauding a total of 89.7 billion won by selling coins by adjusting the market price of virtual currencies such as Pikacoin. In addition, you've heard a lot of coin exchange upsets, hiding criminal proceeds through the virtual asset OTC exchange, right? Additional charges have been filed for submitting false data in the process of listing on Upbit. The Lee brothers are on trial without detention after being released on bail in March this year.

◆ [Voiceover] It even came out as a gem.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] Yes, that's right.

◆ Binaryization: This is a bit of a problem. I don't think this is known much in the media yet, but I hope it will be covered a lot in the media as well.

◇ [Kim Deok-jin] It's estimated that he made a considerable amount of bail, but it's probably possible because he accumulated so much wealth as an unfair profit.

◆ Dualization: In fact, the existing crime also caused 30 billion damage, and it seems that most of the damage has not been returned or recovered to the victims. But now, if it generates nearly 90 billion won in damages, it is said that he committed another coin fraud, but I think the existing sentence for this person was also a little low. They are likely to continue to commit the same crimes in the future, producing victims, and most of them are ant investors. So I think it's a structure in which ordinary people who can't afford money are deprived of money by these people, but I think we must give strict punishment.

◇ Kim Deok-jin: I think your court will probably make a strict decision this time.

◆ Binaryization: Case X File That's all we've prepared for today. You all deserve to be defended. Incident X file, thank you everyone.